“This was so unfunny, Steve had to laugh.”

“Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.”

“He laughed again, red-faced and moist-looking, at another unfunny comment. He was either drunk or an idiot. Possibly both.”

“One day he said, "I'll tell this townHow it feels to be an unfunny clown."And he told them all why he looked so sad,And he told them all why he felt so bad.He told of Pain and Rain and Cold,He told of Darkness in his soul,And after he finished his tale of woe,Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no,They laughed until they shook the trees...And while the world laughed outside.Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.”

“Fun is good but too much of fun has resulted in much kind of unfunny happenings.”

“It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.”